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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Okonkwo is very prosperous, owning a large compound with many huts, and an abundance of food. Ikemefuna is given to Okonkwo to live with him until the clan decides Ikemefuna's fate. How does Ikemefuna react to living with Okonkwo?
(a) He is thankful that he will never be hungry living with Okonkwo, his three wives, and eight children.
(b) He is afraid and does not understand the circumstances.
(c) He is pleased to be living with such a powerful, wealthy man.
(d) He hopes to learn how to become a great farmer and warrior from Okonkwo.

2. Which men fight in the final wrestling match of the day?
(a) Men elected in each of the nine villages.
(b) The wealthiest men from each of the nine villages.
(c) The leaders of the teams are made up of the best wrestlers in the nine villages.
(d) Men chosen by the elders from each of the nine villages.

3. During the rainy season, how do the people of the village pass the time?
(a) They spend many hours praying to the gods for a bountiful harvest.
(b) They prepare yam seeds for next year's fields.
(c) In each hut, children sit by their mother's cooking fire and tell stories, or sit with their father, roasting and eating maize.
(d) They spent time in the hut, listening to flute music, weaving baskets, and sleeping.

4. Who is the first man Okonkwo works for as a share-cropper ?
(a) Ogbuefi Udo
(b) Agbala
(c) Okoye
(d) Nwakibie

5. Where does Chielo bring Ezinma?
(a) Deep into the forest
(b) To the yam fields
(c) To where dead children are buried
(d) To the village of Umuachi, then turns around and continues back to the hills of Agbala

6. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?
(a) A group of armed warriors.
(b) A choir of people singing the message.
(c) The beating of drums in the night.
(d) The town crier beating on his hollow, metal ogene.

7. Okonkwo is sitting in his obi with Ikemefuna and Nwoye, eating dried locusts when Ogbuefi Ezeudu comes with a message. What is the message?
(a) Ikemefuna is to remain in Okonkwo's household as a servant for the rest of his life.
(b) Umuofia decides to kill Ikemefuna. The Oracle of the Hills pronounces it. Okonkwo is not to take part in the killing because the boy calls him father.
(c) Nwoye and Ikemefuna are to be declared by Umuofia as brothers for life.
(d) Ikemefuna is to be given all the rights of an adopted son to Okonkwo.

8. What do the people of Umuofia fear in the night?
(a) Rogue warriors from Mbaino.
(b) Evil spirits, dangerous animals, and snakes.
(c) Kidnappers looking for children to sell as slaves.
(d) Bandits in search of money and food.

9. When is the only time that Unkona is not haggard and mournful?
(a) When fighting for his village against the village of Mbaino.
(b) After paying off his debts.
(c) When providing food for his wife and children.
(d) When drinking and playing his flute.

10. The Ibo people consider conversation to be very important. What form of conversation do they regard the most highly?
(a) Sarcasm
(b) Proverbs
(c) Orations
(d) Rhyming

11. Why does Okonkwo beat his second wife, Ojiugo, during the sacred Week of Peace?
(a) She disagrees with what Okonkwo has to say.
(b) She is caught with another man.
(c) She cooks a meal that Okonkwo does not like.
(d) She is at a friend's house and does not prepare Okonkwo's afternoon meal.

12. What is the one passion that rules Okonkwo's life?
(a) To be affluent in money, wives, and children.
(b) To hate everything his father loved.
(c) To make sure his barn was always filled with yams.
(d) To obtain more wealth than anyone else in Umuofia.

13. The punishment for breaking the sacred peace changes through the years. What happened to a man that broke the Week of Peace in the past?
(a) He was hanged in the marketplace for all to see.
(b) He was dragged on the ground through the village until dead.
(c) He was exiled from Umuofia, considered to be dead to all the clan.
(d) He was tied in the village marketplace and each member of the clan spat on him.

14. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?
(a) In a large, handsomely endowed compound in the hills filled with the gifts from those asking for a consultation.
(b) In the treetops with all the climbing creatures of Umuofia.
(c) Through a round hole in the side of the hill leading to a dimly lit cave.
(d) Deep underground with the creatures of the soil, beneath the hills and all things that live above the ground.

15. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing the nine villages of Umuofia?
(a) Nwoye
(b) Ogbuefi Udo
(c) Ogbuefi Ezeugo
(d) Okoye

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ezinma, the daughter of Okonkwo's second wife, bring fire to Nwoye's mother's hut?

2. How many pots of wine do Obierika's in-laws brink to his home for the uri?

3. Why do men and women look forward to the Feast of the New Yam?

4. What is the only way a young man can build a barn of his own if his father has no yams?

5. Why is the big, ancient silk-cotton tree in the playground considered sacred?

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